One of my favorite lectures to my students at Columbia College is about the stability and durability of the two-party system in America. I draw a diagram…

“Little doubt an election held today would be a Biden landslide/GOP wipeout,” an editor for the respected nonpartisan Cook Political Report said on June…

It is said that the Balkans in southeast Europe “produce more history then they can consume.” I feel that right now the United States is producing more…

When I was in graduate school at Michigan State I got a job with grounds maintenance because the graduate assistantship wasn’t paying the bills. In the…

Until I was eight years old I lived on the edge of a small town in eastern Illinois. Every morning I looked out on big sky and corn or corn stubble. I…

During the Easter egg hunt my two-year-old grandson announced that he had found a rooster egg. This got me thinking: What are some fascinating but…

I tell my students at Columbia College that when they are finished with this class and they don’t know if I’m a Democrat or a Republican, a conservative…

I have not read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ novel Love in the Time of Cholera and it appears the plot doesn’t have much to do with disease, but it certainly…

I’m old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California. The received wisdom at the time was: How did this second-rate, washed-up…

The president, a New Yorker, wins a very close and bitterly contested election and flips the party holding the White House. His first term is…